ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B
主办:中国心理学会
   中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理学报 ›› 2024, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (6): 701-713.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2024.00701

• 研究报告 • 上一篇    下一篇

跨文化表情识别中的群内优势效应:自发性和呈现方式对气愤和厌恶表情识别的影响

方霞(), 葛猷勋   

  1. 浙江大学心理与行为科学系, 杭州 310058
  • 收稿日期:2023-09-26 发布日期:2024-04-08 出版日期:2024-06-25
  • 通讯作者: 方霞, E-mail: x.fang@zju.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目(32300908)

The impact of spontaneity and presentation mode on the ingroup advantage in recognizing angry and disgusted facial expressions

FANG Xia(), GE Youxun   

  1. Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Received:2023-09-26 Online:2024-04-08 Published:2024-06-25

摘要:

以往研究发现, 识别与自身文化背景相同的个体的面部表情比跨文化背景个体更准确, 这被称为群内优势效应。然而, 以往研究主要关注静态表演表情, 对动态表情和自发表情识别中的群内优势效应知之甚少。为了探究群内优势效应是否受表情自发性(表演和自发)和呈现方式(静态和动态)的调节, 本研究招募了中国和加拿大/荷兰被试, 分别对中国和荷兰模特表演和自发的气愤和厌恶表情(实验1), 以及静态和动态表演的气愤和厌恶表情(实验2)进行识别。研究结果显示, 在多数情况下, 表演和自发表情的识别都呈现群内优势效应, 且表演表情的群内优势效应显著高于自发表情; 静态和动态表演表情的识别也出现群内优势效应, 但两者总体上没有显著差异。这些结果表明, 表情识别的群内优势效应会受到表情自发性的调节, 但可能不受表情呈现方式的影响。本研究结果对于拓展群内优势效应研究和深化跨文化表情识别理解具有重要意义。

关键词: 表情识别, 群内优势效应, 表演与自发表情, 静态与动态表情, 文化差异

Abstract:

With the acceleration of globalization, effective cross-cultural communication has become increasingly important in modern society. One significant aspect of this communication involves accurately interpreting facial expressions of emotion. Previous research has found that nonverbal emotional communication is compromised when communication occurs between individuals from different cultural backgrounds compared to within cultural groups. Specifically, individuals are more accurate at recognizing facial expressions of individuals from their own cultural background than those from a different cultural background, a phenomenon known as ingroup advantage effect. However, most previous studies examining the ingroup advantage in facial expression recognition have focused primarily on posed and static facial expressions, paying less attention to spontaneous and dynamic facial expressions. Given that facial expressions in real-life interactions are often spontaneous and dynamic, it is imperative to investigate whether the ingroup advantage is influenced by the spontaneity (posed and spontaneous) and presentation mode (static and dynamic) of facial expressions.

To address these research objectives, we conducted two experiments involving participants from China, Canada, and the Netherlands. In Experiment 1, Chinese and Canadian participants were asked to recognize posed and spontaneous facial expressions of anger and disgust displayed by Chinese and Dutch models. In Experiment 2, Chinese and Dutch participants were recruited to recognize static and dynamic facial expressions of anger and disgust displayed by Chinese and Dutch models. Specifically, Experiment 1 included 126 Chinese participants and 126 Canadian participants, while Experiment 2 involved 82 Chinese participants and 75 Dutch participants. In both experiments, participants were asked to rate the intensity of facial expressions on scales of anger, disgust, fear, sadness, and joy ranging from 0 (not at all) to 100 (extremely).

The results indicated that the ingroup advantage was influenced by the spontaneity of the facial expressions. In three out of four cases (Eastern perceivers recognizing facial expressions of anger and disgust, and Western perceivers recognizing facial expressions of disgust), posed expressions exhibited a stronger ingroup advantage compared to spontaneous expressions. The exception was Western perceivers demonstrating a greater ingroup advantage when recognizing spontaneous facial expressions of anger. Furthermore, the findings revealed that the ingroup advantage was not influenced by the presentation mode of the facial expressions. In three out of four cases (Eastern perceivers recognizing facial expressions of anger and disgust, and Western perceivers recognizing facial expressions of disgust), there was no significant difference in the ingroup advantage between static and dynamic expressions. The only exception was Western perceivers' recognition of static expressions of anger, where the ingroup advantage was greater than that for dynamic expressions of anger.

In conclusion, the present research demonstrated that the ingroup advantage was more pronounced in posed expression recognition compared to spontaneous expression recognition, while the presentation mode of the expressions did not influence the ingroup advantage. These findings contribute to the existing knowledge in the field of cross-cultural emotion recognition by revealing differences in the ingroup advantage between posed and spontaneous expressions. Consequently, these results provide new empirical contributions that enhance our understanding of how individuals recognize expressions displayed by individuals from different cultural backgrounds.

Key words: facial expression recognition, ingroup advantage, posed and spontaneous facial expressions, static and dynamic facial expressions, culture difference

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